Evers-Williams to speak at Lincoln Memorial

11:37 AM,
Aug. 28, 2013

Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar Evans, speaks at a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, in Washington. Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, to commemorate King's famous ""I Have a Dream" speech, made Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled.

Written by

Deborah Barfield Berry
Gannett Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - The speech Myrlie Evers-Williams will deliver today on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial comes 50 years late, but some say her message is as relevant as ever.

Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, was supposed to speak at the 1963 March on Washington but never made it because of travel delays.

Today, she will join President Barack Obama and former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmie Carter at a Let Freedom Ring ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the original march, which took place Aug. 28, 1963 and was the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...